11705 projects whose affiliated fair was here, most recently in 2026.
ISEF records a state or province for some finalists and not others, so these counts do not add up to the country total.
11705 projects · showing 8251–8280
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
Coronary Artery Disease is often characterized as the world’s deadliest disease, leading to the mortality of 7.4 million individuals in 2012. In addition, the adverse effects of Chemotherapy…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Purpose: Some microorganisms can degrade toxic hydrocarbons in crude oils and petroleum based products by bioremediation. In this process, microbial strains with unusual metabolic pathways w…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Black Rubber, commonly found in tires and crumb rubber, is known to have carcinogenic materials and compounds such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metals. Crumb rubber is recyc…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, presents an enormous amount of scientific potential. While probes have been sent to the planet before, consideration of a future manned mission provides its own…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is a chytrid fungus that is contributing to amphibian population declines and extinctions across the globe. Although more research has been done on Bd in…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Clinical cancer diagnosis faces many challenges, particularly in its low sensitivity and accuracy for early tumor detection. This project aims to develop an early diagnostic platform using l…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
The overall goal of this project was to accurately model the stability of a planet in various multi-star systems. Through the progression of creating a computer model of our solar system, a…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Substance use disorder is characterized by the chronic use of addictive substances, to the point where substance use is beyond the user’s control. Both genetic and environmental factors dete…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
The formation of central crater mounds on Mars is not well understood, especially in the under-studied mid-latitude regions. Changes in Mars' climate have affected the amount of sediment and…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
Egyptian Fractions can be defined as the series of distinct unit fractions that can be summed to equal a proper fraction. Any fraction can be expressed in this way, and the Egyptians had a m…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
The emergence of high-throughput histopathological images over the past decade provides new opportunities for computational techniques to study cancerous tumors. Current analysis of tumor pr…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Annually, 7 million patients suffer surgical complications, many of which are linked to inadequate surgical training and a lack of individualized feedback. To improve operative skill, it is…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Those involved in the citrus industry understand the ongoing struggle of warding off pests from their crop to ensure the best product. Diaphorina citri, or more commonly, the Asian citrus ps…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a medical device that doctors use to determine great deals of information about a patient’s heart health. However, doctors are only able to use ECG devices in h…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Stethoscope are the most widely used medical technology in the world, used in both developed and developing nations. A normal acoustic stethoscope can cost anywhere between $40 and $1,000 an…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
Extensive research is being conducted by space agencies and institutions regarding free-floating microsatellites that originally translated and rotated using thrusters. These microsatellites…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
The obesity pandemic affects 36.5% of the US adult population and exacerbates the risk for deadly comorbidities including Type II Diabetes (T2DM). Current obesity and T2DM therapeutics are n…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
This project developed a scalable, low cost FFF 3D printer with a unique leveling system. The bed is coupled with an elevator, forming the Z axis. The printer consists of four identical wall…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
Due to depleting oil reserves and the threat of global warming, renewable energy sources, such as the biofuel ethanol, are being explored as alternatives to petroleum. Cellulose, the most co…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Almost 5 million dental implants are placed annually in the United States, and they are now considered the standard of care for the replacement of lost teeth. Despite their increased use for…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Diseases that cause abnormal cells affect millions of individuals. These irregularly shaped cells can be detected visually through a blood smear. A way to automate the detection of abnormal…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The purpose of this research was to determine if a new non-intrusive allergy test can detect dust and dander allergens in IgE sensitized individuals using a capillary tube precipitation test…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
We present data and analysis on the capabilities of the telescope at the Centennial Observatory, and, in general, ground-based telescopes with similar properties to perform differential phot…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness affecting nearly 300,000 people each year. The debilitating symptoms are largely unspecific save for a bulls-eye rash that only appears in…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Maintaining a healthy bee population is of vital importance to the sustainability of our planet, as bees are essential for the future of agriculture and the stability of the Earth’s food sup…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
The detection of nitroaromatic compounds is extremely vital in many areas including military and civilian safety, chemical industry and environmental monitoring. 4-Nitrophenol (4-NP) is one…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is currently one of the deadliest cancers, with a 5-year survival rate of just 7%. Detecting PC while it is localized increases the survival rate to 30%, however to da…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Wyoming is the largest producer of sub-bituminous coal in the United States, and produces enough energy to provide the electricity needs for nearly half of all of the people living in this c…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
The Purpose of this experiment was to determine which has more effect on the impulse of a 3-D printed rocket (DeLaval) nozzle, throat radius or exit radius. The total impulse aids in the abi…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
Objective: To create a mathematical model which, when applied to a Major League Baseball hitter’s pitch-by-pitch data and a pitcher’s pitch selection, returns the optimal pitch selection giv…